Today, millions of people worldwide take to the streets to mark May Day – the International Workers Day. For more than 100 years, workers, students and communities fighting against oppression have marched on this day for revolution. We continue this tradition in Canada this year as well. In Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Quebec City, Sudbury, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon our members have been active in planning May Day actions and will be joining red contingents to take to the streets. In Peterborough, Vancouver, and Charlottetown there will be public talks and celebrations to engage the masses on the necessity of revolution.

Many gains were made by the workers and people fighting for liberation in the last 100 years, with the October Revolution of 1917 paving the way for movements that led to radical changes worldwide. However, today we still live in very challenging times. The forces of reaction and fascism are on the rise in Canada and across the globe, the imperialists are escalating their criminal warmongering efforts, and life becomes harder for the majority of working class people. We need to remember that we can only resist effectively and turn the tide in our favor through organizing in solidarity with the most oppressed groups, while advancing revolution as the goal.

We reaffirm our commitment to organize to end Capitalism, Imperialism, Settler-Colonialism and all forms of oppression by broadening the Canada-wide movement of youth and students, a movement that can fight and win. For over 150 years Canada has been built on the colonial exploitation of Indigenous peoples at home and by imperialism abroad. Furthermore, the building of the illegitimate state of Canada is just one part of the crimes of European colonialism that has lasted for over 500 years here on Turtle Island, and across the Western Hemisphere. As expensive and elaborate celebrations are already being held to mark 150 years of the existence of Canada, we in the MER-RSM hold that there can be no Indigenous liberation while there is still Canada. So today we mark May Day, International Workers Day, and we affirm yet again that it is right to rebel, and better to make revolution!